{"id": "expunge", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "expunge", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "expunction", "text": "expunction"}, {"id": "expungement", "text": "expungement"}, {"id": "expunger", "text": "expunger"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["early 17th century: from Latin expungere \u2018mark for deletion by means of points\u2019, from ex- \u2018out\u2019 + pungere \u2018to prick\u2019"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/expunge_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u026ak\u02c8sp\u028cn(d)\u0292"}, {"dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u025bk\u02c8sp\u028cn(d)\u0292"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["obliterate or remove completely (something unwanted or unpleasant)"], "examples": [{"text": "the kind of man that could expunge an unsatisfactory incident from his memory"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0343390.006", "shortDefinitions": ["obliterate or remove completely"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "erase"}, {"language": "en", "text": "remove"}, {"language": "en", "text": "delete"}, {"language": "en", "text": "rub out"}, {"language": "en", "text": "wipe out"}, {"language": "en", "text": "efface"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "expunge", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0005324.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "expunge"}], "type": "headword", "word": "expunge"}], "word": "expunge"}